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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by ionised on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:16AM (#19795604)
> Well, he did understand how to turn the customers data into a product. He is one of the key persons who formed the whole data economy thing; that's quite a big deal - he formulated the way of making money for the 21st century.

You keep repeating this as if it is somehow axiomatically good.

The surveillance capitalism business model is not one we should be proud of in any way.

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:35PM (#19803712)
I don't like it either (don't work for them) I was just trying to gain an understanding on what is going on.
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